Heraclito y Democrito, (Heraclitus and Democritus), by José María de Labra. (1975), 50 x 70 cm.
José María de Labra Suazo ( Corunna , 1925 - Palma de Mallorca , 1994) member of the artist group Parpalló . Between 1945 and 1958 he studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid . During his last year of training is part of Parpalló. His relationship with the group began to participate as a guest artist at the first joint exhibition of Spanish normative art (1960) and then as a member exhibited in the last two samples of the group. His early figurative art had a tendency with a religious theme, based on a geometric structure of the compositional space. However, towards the middle of the 1950s evolved towards geometric abstraction. With this new guidance, new research experiments constituent through personal painting and sculpture revealing, like many contemporary artists to Labra, sought the new concepts of space and movement from a mixture of materials. In 1953 the artist exhibited in 1955 in La Coruna and the Ateneo de Madrid. A year later, he won the Premio Francesco Perotti for the best work on religious themes of the XXVIII Venice Biennale . Also, he was part of several exhibitions, both national and international, and received numerous awards including the Premio Uruguay in the third Bienal Hispano and the Grand Prize at the III International Festival of Cagnes-Sur-Mer. In 1989 Alia Martin published his doctoral thesis on analysis and evaluation of the work of José María de Labra. In 2013 the Museum Oteiza he dedicated the exhibition "Laboratorio de Formas" and the Madrid gallery José de la Mano organized a selection of models. Today his works are, for example, the collection Caixanova and the Library Museum Víctor Balaguer , among others.
Size: 3657px × 2676px
Location: Museo Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Castillo de San José, Arrecife, Lanzarote, Canary Islands
Photo credit: © Simon Haggett / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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